Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing, the daughter of a Chinese mother and an American father who was the son of Dutch immigrants. Her mother was a mathematician, and her maternal grandmother received a college education in prerevolutionary China. Her …
Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago on January 20, 1950, and educated both at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a PhD in folklore. Hirsch’s first collection of poems, For the Sleepwalkers (Alfred A. Knopf), was …
Read an Interview with Suzanne Cleary, conducted by Ann van Buren. These poems offer a poignant tenderness in encounters with art, literature, history, and memory, small moments of transformation, “like a tear in fabric, through which light passes.” This is …
Read an Interview with Iain Haley Pollock, conducted by Ann van Buren. “If the spirit is generous, and the balance between living and letters match, a fine book of poems sings the author and the reader free.”—Cornelius Eady “Beyond the …
Read an Interview with Alicia Ostriker, conducted by Ann van Buren. “Alicia Ostriker has become one of those brilliantly provocative and imaginatively gifted contemporaries whose iconoclastic expression, whether in prose or poetry, is essential to understanding our American selves.” —Joyce …
Read an Interview with Phylisha Villanueva, conducted by Michael Quattrone. Phylisha Villanueva, Westchester County’s Poet Laureate, is a Belizean-American poet, curator, and educator exploring identity, resilience, and motherhood. Born in the Bronx and raised in Yonkers, she co-founded The Yonkers …
Read KPS’s exclusive Interview with Mark Wunderlich, conducted by Ann van Buren. I am in love with The God of Nothingness, which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic somethingness.—Diane Seuss The superb fourth collection from Wunderlich disarms with …
Read KPS’s exclusive Interview with Wang Jiaxin, conducted by Ann van Buren. Wang Jiaxin’s DARKENING MIRROR, edited and translated by Diana Shi and George O’Connell, belongs to this moment, and reading it, one is aware again that poetry is not …
Please note: This in-person reading at the Katonah Village Library does not require registration. Recommended donation ($15) can be paid at the door. Reading starts at 4pm. Special Introduction by Esmeralda Santiago* “I see the poetic imagination as essential to …
Please note: This in-person reading at the Katonah Village Library does not require registration. Recommended donation ($15) can be paid at the door. Reading starts at 4pm. Read KPS’s exclusive Interview with Mark Irwin, conducted by Ann van Buren. “Subtlety …